i just -- i struggled with it myself for a long time but i came to realize life is that gift from god and i think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that god incompetent tended to happen. >> mourdock and akin are considered tea party candidates. republicans who came from the party's conservative grassroots. mourdock won a surprising victory over dick luger. these kinds of primary challenges have been part of the central part of the political party's political and electoral strategy. for a second election cycle they have seemed to have caused part of the republican majority. two years ago they caused republicans to lose three seats. while the movement has been successful in pushing the party ideologically, it failed in getting a republican majority in the senate. even the ideological victories of the tea party have been short lived as the electorate moves back to the senate. if conservatism would be winning, does anyone doubt that romney would be running as a conservative? the right is going along because its partisans know romney has no othe